Supply-indicating device.



H. H. TROXEL.

SUPPLY LALDICATING DEVICE. APPLICATIQN HLED APR. 22, I918.

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Patented Oct. 8, 1918.

I f 105222271 #4. a /iw STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HARVEY H. TBOXEL, OF WOOST EB, OHIO, ASSIGNOB OF ONE-HALF TO JOHN J. KINNEY, OF WOOSTEB, OHIO.

SUPPLY-INDICATING DEVICE.

' Application filed April 29, 1918. v Serial No. 231,372.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, HARVEY H. TROXEL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Wooster, in the county of Wayne and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Supply-Indicatin Devices, of which the following is a speci cation.

Y My invention relates to improvements in supply indicating devices, the present embodiment of the invention being particularly designed and adapted for useas a mail suppl indicator by the patrons of rural free de ivery mail routes, the improved indicator bein adapted to be placed in or upon the rura mail box and supplied with suitable means for indicating to the rural mail carrier the kind and amount of particular mail supplies desired, as well as providing a suitable coin receptacle for holding the exact amount of money necessary to cover the entire order.

The primary object of the invention is to provide a generally improved supply indicator of this class to be exceedingly simple in construction, cheap of manufacture, and efficient in use.

With the above mentioned and other ends in view, the invention consists in the novel construction, arrangement, and combination of parts, hereinafter described, illustrated in one of the embodiments in the accompanying drawings, and particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

Referring to the drawings, forming a part of this speclfication, Figure 1, is a front view of the improved supply indicator, the indicator keys being removed and the blank for forming the com receptacle at the rear and at one end of the card or facemember bein open to show the form of the blank be ore being folded up.

Fig. 2, a front levation of the same com plete.

Fig. 3, a top or edge view of the same.

Similar numerals of reference designate like parts throughout all the figures of the drawin The improved indicator comprises a suitable card or face member 1, provided at one side with a tabular list of various supplies, as at P, as for example,1-stamps, 2cstam s, post-cards, stamped envelops, and the like, and opposite each line in the list Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 8, 1918.

of supplies a plurality of openings 1, are arranged in horizontal alinement therewith. These openings 1", are also arranged in vertical lines or columns, and above this panel of openings a horizontal line of numerals is provided, said numerals being arranged in vertical alinement with the openings 1", for indicating the number or quantity of the particular supplies desired, as for example, the' number of stamps, post-cards, or envelops appearing in horizontal alinement with the indicator key, as hereinafter referred to.

As a means of conveniently indicating the supplies ordered, a plurality of indicator keys 2, are provided, said indicator keys, in the present instance, being in the form of expansible interlocking key or indicator members, as for example, in the specific form of cotter pins, adapted to be inserted in the openings 1, and to interlock therewith when in position, and as a means of holding the interlocking indicator keys in convenient posit1on for use, as well as preventing their loss,

such indicators may be flexibly connected to the card or face member 1, by means of a plurality of flexible cable or cord members 3', of convenient length to readily cover the panel of perforations or openings 1". One end of the card or face member is cut into suitable blank form, as at 4, and is adapted to be folded up along predetermined lines, as at 4, so as to fold up at the rear of the card or face member, and the one end there-- of formin a coin receptacle 5, the flap 4 forming t e bottom of the receptacle when folded. The free edges of the flaps forming the coin receptacle may be secured to the rear of the card or face member 1, in any suitable and convenient manner, as for exconnection with the accompanying drawings, the operation and advantages of my invention will be readily understood.

Having thus described one of the embodiments of my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is,

1. In an indicating device,'a portable card member provided on its front with a tabular supply 11st and a plurality of openings and indicator numerals, and expansible interlocking indicator keys carried by certain of said openings of said card member removably connected to the latter.

2. In an indicating device, a portable card member provided on its front with a vertical 15 supply st and horizontal indicator numerals with a plurality of openings in horizontal and vertical alinement therewith, and interlocking indicator keys removably carried by certain of said openings of said card 3 W, F. KEAN, ALZINA TROXEL. 

